*pre-post rant alert. You have been warned...*
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So I'm just supposed to ignore my friends and family like they don't exist? Turn away from my parents and not respect them? Isn't that contrary to what Islam teaches? If I go one way, I'm "embracing the kaffirs" and if I go the other...
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I pray as often as I can. I'm not up to 5 times a yet, but that's because I am concentrating on trying to do each prayer correctly. When I get one down, I move onto the next one.
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Recent events in my life have forced me to learn to become a leader. I'm still not completely ready, but I am learning, so that when the time comes, I can be ready.
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I am probably going to anger some people with this, but here we go.
My wife can do whatever she wants. If she wants to work, she can work. If she wants to stay home, she can stay home. I don't care what she does, as long as she loves me.
I never said that I don't lower my gaze, I just said that I struggle with it. I know that it is the right thing to do, but sometimes the right thing is not easy.
's all I'm saying, man.
Fornication is not the problem. I've always been a bit phobic of women, so I don't really pursue relations with them.
It's lowering my gaze that I struggle with. A hot girl walks by, and I check her out almost on reflex. Then too there is *!*!*!*!ography so readily available now.
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So.. is headbanging considered dancing? :p
Sorry... just trying to lighten the mood a little. I sense some tension here between our sisters, and I want to try to ease that...
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Short answer: No.
Long answer: See my many rants about how politics is a conspiracy and the results of elections are pre-determined, and the elections only exist to maintain the illusion of democracy.
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Alcohol and women are the biggest struggles in my life. When you're raised in a culture that expects and encourages behavior of drinking and chasing women, it's really hard to give that up all at once.